Taneesh Kaur
Teaching Artist
Poet, Painter, Linguist
“Taneesh Kaur consistently writes poems that are not fearless, but rather heedless of fear. Thawing is an act of headlong self-exploration and spares the poet very little. Taneesh writes the stripping of husks, the burning leaf pile, and possibly the hint of new growth. I found myself to be mostly speechless, wrapped in the words with all nerves exposed.”
K Shuck 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco Emerita
Author of Pick a Garnet to Sleep In (Scapegoat Press)
“Thawing invites us to a cacophony of inner and outer reflections that demand response-ability be taken for wounds society’s tradition inflicts. These soul searching prose break the ice with stunningly sharp poems candidly aware, eye-witness to a thousand cuts.”
Tureeda Mikell
Author of Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine (Black Lawrence Press)
about
Taneesh Kaur is a US-born Punjabi teaching artist based in San Francisco, a social justice advocate who uses nature to understand and dismantle systems of mental and physical oppression. She has a Master's in linguistics from San Francisco State University, with training abroad in Mexico and Chile, and is currently in the MFA program for poetry at University of San Francisco. Se habla español.